The Museum of London

Visited 6th June 2003--------Entry free

Report by Shimmer & Midgey

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Not to be confused with The British Museum, The Museum of London is near St Bart's Hospital. It's a lot smaller than The British Museum and is dedicated to life in London since Roman times. There's some interesting exhibits there although not quite as impressive as we were expecting. Highlights include replicas of celtic artefacts, a show on the Great Fire of 1666 and the Lord Mayor of London's stagecoach.

Cor, look at all that gold! Better not park that in Tottenham, it wouldn't look quite the same supported by bricks instead of wheels

Another temporary exhibit when we were there was on Samuel Pepys London. A small room opposite the Lord Mayors Coach and next to the toilets was given over to the life of the famous diaryist but only really contained models of boats from what we could see, although there was a running commentary! Perhaps we weren't paying all that much attention!

All that effort to produce a basin of dirty water! We decided to get a drink from Boots instead.

Apart from one or two areas, there's a no photo policy here. Bloody annoying as the brochure specifies pictures of exhibits are available in the gift shop and guess what, there aren't, none that we could see anyway! We did get to see the Roman water wheel featured on "Time Team" tho, that was really interesting after seeing the programme, however it was only a temporary exhibit and most likely isn't still there.

For a free museum, it's worth a visit, but only if you're in the area, we wouldn't recommend going out of your way to go there unless there's something of specific interest that you would like to see.